AIM isn't just a "protocol", kids. It's a bunch of servers owned, run and paid for by AOL. AOL spends millions of dollars on Sybase licenses and support contracts alone to run AIM
Umm, the artile talking about AOL itself, not AIM. And anyone using an alternate AOL client would still have to pay for AOL, so I don't see why it's a problem at all.
Yeah, I did mean the z80. Somehow forgot to specify. Hrm.
Anyway, the 6502 kicked it's ass. Ok, it was slower but it's Instruction Set kicked the Z80's ass and look at the machines it was in - I'll just drop two names: C64 & BBC Model B.
Alpha is gone, PA-RISC is going, what's going to be left? MIPS? SPARC? AMD? Crusoe?
Zilog, of course! The greatest CPU to ever go without MUL/DIV intructions. It's a wonder it's not used in more modern computers. If it's good enough for your Gameboy and you calculator, it's good enough for your desktop, I say.
...Now If only I could find a Linux distro for my TRS-80...
To take an example from another arena: if I write to one of the media syndicates and get permission to use a Peanuts cartoon in some publication I'm working on, I can't then grant others access to use that cartoon, because I don't own it.
This anology isn't quite right. When you purchase software, you purchase the right to use it, not the right to dristribute it. It's more like if you bought a Peanuts book and read it. Don't you have the right to give the book to a friend?
No lawyers are banging down the doors of used book stored, that's all I know.
Enough small freedoms and you are living in a police state - and the scary thing is how easily this could be done in the US.
With all the patriotism and support for the Bush administration, I'm beginning to wonder if the majority might not eventually want to live in a police state. And if that's what the majority wants, who are we, I wonder, to stop them? If the majority wants to be opressed, isn't that kind of (ironically) their right?
And if so, what are we to do? Interesting stuff to think about.
THIS IS A CLEAR CALL TO BEGIN THE UNIFORM USE OF ENCRYPTION *FOR ALL 'NET COMMUNICATIONS*.
I'm with you! I just wrote a small utility to encrypt all my email and ip headers before they leave my computer. Now I wonder why my traffic isn't being routed correctly?
They ask hackers to help them.
But they don't say how.
For all we know maybe they just want to test biological weapons on us.
From the article:
"Cyberangels hopes to enlist politically motivated hackers instead to help with online intelligence gathering, such as tracking down computer criminals who attempt to attack the Internet infrastructure, said Aftab.
The organization is also seeking information on any terrorist groups that may have attempted to commission computer security experts to aid them, she said."
Seems pretty clear to me. Contact the cyberangels and offer your services if you believe you can help gather intelligence, or give them ayn info you may have on terrorists attemptimg to commission security experts.
It looks to me like they have contact info on their website
Bill of Rights, 4th Amendment, reads in part: "The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, PAPERS, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures..." (emphases mine).
I'm sorry, I'm just not seeing the connection between having an ID card and having things searched and siezed.
You know, the Jews had a "unique ID" tattooed onto their arms. I'm sure they didn't mind too much...
What brand of weird reactionism are you pushing here? Obviously I'm not advocating tatooing number into people arms against there will. But think about it for minute, and tell me what's wrong with the number itself?
Ok, help me out here. What's so bad about having a national ID card? As it stands now, there's no really good way to verify someone's identity. There are probably dozens of Aaron St.John's out there, and at least a couple Aaron Michael St.John's. Odds are that there is probably an Aaron St.John or two with my birthdate as well. If I had a unique ID number, it would be real easy to tell me apart from the other Aaron St.Johns, especially the criminals Aaron St.Johns, the Aaron St.Johns not elligible to work in America, and the wanted Aaron St.Johns.
Maybe I'm the only one who just doesn't see why having some sort of unique ID makes us into opressed citizens. Which freedom, exactly, would we be losing here?
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Yeah, I know, I didn't quite have it right. Thank God for anal retintive quote cops.;)
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Doesn't it seem that people will be replaced by many robots commanded by a few people in a hidden bunker somewhere. That is where it's going.
Just remember: in the future, wars will be fought be tiny robots. Your job will be to build and mantain those robots.
i think that USA should not stick they noses in everyone elses bussines.
By that token, other people should not stick their noses in our business, but that isn't stopping terrorist groups from lobbing planes in are direction.
I can see it now... PR folks from Microsoft, and other closed-source businesses are going to jump all over this (or related matters):
"Open source isn't secure! Apache got hacked! Linux got hacked"
Right. Because Microsoft servers never, ever get hacked, so this is a great marketing point. Next time you go for the easy Microsoft-bashing karma points, try harder, ok?
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AIM isn't just a "protocol", kids. It's a bunch of servers owned, run and paid for by AOL. AOL spends millions of dollars on Sybase licenses and support contracts alone to run AIM
Umm, the artile talking about AOL itself, not AIM. And anyone using an alternate AOL client would still have to pay for AOL, so I don't see why it's a problem at all.
thanks, you too.
Anybody notice the date on the article is 1 April 2000?
If it did, it doesn't anymore: Posted by michael on Saturday October 06, @11:48PM
Zero page, man! :)
The z80 also has a couple of index registers and zero page, as well as 12 general puropse registers (2 exchangable sets of of 3 pairs)
It's not good enough for gameboys or calculators. The TI-89 runs Motorola, as does the Game Boy Advance.
The Gameboy Color uses a z80 workalike, and the TI-82, TI-83 and the TI-86 all use geniune z80s.
Um, that's what he meant.
Yeah, I did mean the z80. Somehow forgot to specify. Hrm.
Anyway, the 6502 kicked it's ass. Ok, it was slower but it's Instruction Set kicked the Z80's ass and look at the machines it was in - I'll just drop two names: C64 & BBC Model B.
I'll just drop one drawback: two GP registers.
Alpha is gone, PA-RISC is going, what's going to be left? MIPS? SPARC? AMD? Crusoe?
Zilog, of course! The greatest CPU to ever go without MUL/DIV intructions. It's a wonder it's not used in more modern computers. If it's good enough for your Gameboy and you calculator, it's good enough for your desktop, I say.
...Now If only I could find a Linux distro for my TRS-80...
Lets hope the CD bombs.
;)
Well I know that I, for one, will be boycotting this album!
You can also download a GameBoy version (scroll down to "Pocket Enigma").
To take an example from another arena: if I write to one of the media syndicates and get permission to use a Peanuts cartoon in some publication I'm working on, I can't then grant others access to use that cartoon, because I don't own it.
This anology isn't quite right. When you purchase software, you purchase the right to use it, not the right to dristribute it. It's more like if you bought a Peanuts book and read it. Don't you have the right to give the book to a friend?
No lawyers are banging down the doors of used book stored, that's all I know.
Enough small freedoms and you are living in a police state - and the scary thing is how easily this could be done in the US.
With all the patriotism and support for the Bush administration, I'm beginning to wonder if the majority might not eventually want to live in a police state. And if that's what the majority wants, who are we, I wonder, to stop them? If the majority wants to be opressed, isn't that kind of (ironically) their right?
And if so, what are we to do? Interesting stuff to think about.
THIS IS A CLEAR CALL TO BEGIN THE UNIFORM USE OF ENCRYPTION *FOR ALL 'NET COMMUNICATIONS*.
I'm with you! I just wrote a small utility to encrypt all my email and ip headers before they leave my computer. Now I wonder why my traffic isn't being routed correctly?
Jolene Blalock. [maximonline.com]
Am I the only onwe that thinks it's kinda of sad that this got +5, iformative?
They ask hackers to help them.
But they don't say how.
For all we know maybe they just want to test biological weapons on us.
From the article:
"Cyberangels hopes to enlist politically motivated hackers instead to help with online intelligence gathering, such as tracking down computer criminals who attempt to attack the Internet infrastructure, said Aftab.
The organization is also seeking information on any terrorist groups that may have attempted to commission computer security experts to aid them, she said."
Seems pretty clear to me. Contact the cyberangels and offer your services if you believe you can help gather intelligence, or give them ayn info you may have on terrorists attemptimg to commission security experts.
It looks to me like they have contact info on their website
Bill of Rights, 4th Amendment, reads in part: "The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, PAPERS, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures..." (emphases mine).
I'm sorry, I'm just not seeing the connection between having an ID card and having things searched and siezed.
So since we are already losing our privacy and our civil liberties, we should might as well give up the rest of them to Larry and Oracle.. good idea.
Because, after all, not having a way of uniquely idenifying citizens is a right our forefathers fought valiantly for.
If someone would please just explain to me what right we'd be giving up here, I might care.
You know, the Jews had a "unique ID" tattooed onto their arms. I'm sure they didn't mind too much...
What brand of weird reactionism are you pushing here? Obviously I'm not advocating tatooing number into people arms against there will. But think about it for minute, and tell me what's wrong with the number itself?
Ok, help me out here. What's so bad about having a national ID card? As it stands now, there's no really good way to verify someone's identity. There are probably dozens of Aaron St.John's out there, and at least a couple Aaron Michael St.John's. Odds are that there is probably an Aaron St.John or two with my birthdate as well. If I had a unique ID number, it would be real easy to tell me apart from the other Aaron St.Johns, especially the criminals Aaron St.Johns, the Aaron St.Johns not elligible to work in America, and the wanted Aaron St.Johns.
Maybe I'm the only one who just doesn't see why having some sort of unique ID makes us into opressed citizens. Which freedom, exactly, would we be losing here?
Yeah, I know, I didn't quite have it right. Thank God for anal retintive quote cops. ;)
Doesn't it seem that people will be replaced by many robots commanded by a few people in a hidden bunker somewhere. That is where it's going.
Just remember: in the future, wars will be fought be tiny robots. Your job will be to build and mantain those robots.
i think that USA should not stick they noses in everyone elses bussines.
By that token, other people should not stick their noses in our business, but that isn't stopping terrorist groups from lobbing planes in are direction.
Nothing particularly original there, except this virus is pretty unique both in how it operates, and what it does
Umm, excuse me? "Nothing particularly original there", except for the entirity of the trojan's being, which is "pretty unique." Riiight...
Vidomi has splited their program into two programs
This news makes me so happy, I shited my pants. The original GPL violation made me so agry I spited.
Honestly, though, who needs a petabyte of space?
Really. 640k should be enought for anyone.
I can see it now... PR folks from Microsoft, and other closed-source businesses are going to jump all over this (or related matters): "Open source isn't secure! Apache got hacked! Linux got hacked"
Right. Because Microsoft servers never, ever get hacked, so this is a great marketing point. Next time you go for the easy Microsoft-bashing karma points, try harder, ok?